Scientists Find No Evidence of YetiFor decades, a large creature called a Yeti has been talked about in Western popular culture. It has appeared in films, cartoons, video games and more.The yeti is large and hairy and walks on two feet. Some people claim they have seen a yeti in the Himalayan Mountains in Asia.It has a fearsome reputation.Consider a scene from the American cartoon show, Scooby Doo:-Apparently every restaurant that's ever opened here closed down immediately -- under suspicious circumstances.-Let me guess: Yeti-related circumstances?-You got it.New genetic research suggests that this huge beast may, in fact, exist in the Himalayas.But it's probably just a bear.A team of scientists said this week that they had studied the DNA of nine samples from museums and private collections. All of the samples were said to have come from the yeti.They found that eight of the nine samples came from bears – Asian black bears, Himalayan brown bears and Tibetan brown bears, to be exact. The one remaining sample came from a dog, the researchers found.Charlotte Lindqvist studies bear genetics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is one of the writers of the yeti report published recently in the scientific journal "Proceedings of the Royal Society B." She said the report's findings "strongly suggest" that the legend of the yeti is connected closely to bears that live in the mountainous area.Lindqvist called the study the most detailed research to date of so-called yeti specimens.While the recent study did not identify a yeti, it did give scientists information about the area's bear populations.The brown bears living high in the Tibetan Plateau and the western Himalayan Mountains appear to belong to two separate bear populations, researchers found. Despite living fairly close to each other, those two populations have been separated for thousands of years, Lindqvist said.I'm John Russell.

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1.popular culture 流行文化；大众文化

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New genetic research suggests that this huge beast may, in fact, exist in the Himalayas.新的基因研究表明，这种巨型野兽可能真的存在于喜马拉雅山脉A!=jVI_)ltojjfWZr。只不过它可能是熊PKP%Pjm_fltl7i0。本周，一组科学家表示，他们研究了博物馆和私人收藏的9份DNA样本sU,]6xBSV0FlfBgZ。据说，这些样本皆来自于雪人qE[cc+c|w~h8#]TFOQR。科学家发现，9份样本中有8份来自于熊，确切地说是亚洲黑熊、喜马拉雅棕熊和西藏棕熊LY&gC.!.jO.e!。而剩下的那个样本来自于狗J&Yd#)11(n6|ROR5;K。夏洛特·林奎斯特（Charlotte Lindqvist）在纽约州立大学布法罗分校研究熊类基因UqZXOk~z*TAz。她也是雪人报告的作者之一，近期，该报告刊登在《英国皇家学会学报B版：生物科学》上,y1fJ7+^kX。她指出，研究结果“充分表明”雪人传说与栖息在深山中的熊密切相关SYpgj2uP69。林奎斯特称，该研究是迄今为止对“雪人样本”进行的最细致的研究b-m6Qr@.NVwJlsR0~。虽然该研究并未证实雪人的存在，但的确为科学家提供了该地区熊类种群数量的信息Ez[EULB)2x0#RZVc。研究人员发现，青藏高原的棕熊与喜马拉雅山脉西部的棕熊似乎分属两个不同的种群rZP&Iu#.#80)+-。林奎斯特表示，尽管两者的栖息地非常接近，但两个熊类种群已分开了数千年Tohb!)vnicA|38。约翰·罗塞尔为您播报du=-E*iM;6Mu。